Hello, April! Welcome one of spring’s most colorful months with our free printable April coloring page, inspired by blooming flowers, fresh spring colors, Easter fun, rainy days, and all the little changes happening outdoors as the season gets underway.
April is a month when spring becomes much easier to notice in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. New leaves appear, gardens begin filling with color, birds become increasingly active, and rainy days help create the perfect excuse for an afternoon of coloring indoors.
Our April printable is a cheerful way to celebrate the month at home, in the classroom, or as part of a spring nature lesson.
Choose traditional spring colors such as pink, yellow, lavender, green, and sky blue—or make April look completely different with rainbow flowers, purple clouds, turquoise leaves, and any other colors your imagination can invent.
Grab your crayons, colored pencils, or markers and let April bloom!
🌷 Welcome April With Color
April sits right in the heart of spring for much of the Northern Hemisphere.
March often introduces the first hints of the changing season, while May can feel lush, green, and increasingly warm. April sits between the two, bringing its own mix of flowers, rain showers, fresh growth, Easter celebrations, and brighter days.
That makes an April coloring page particularly versatile.
You can turn it into:
- A spring garden
- A rainy April day
- An Easter scene
- A butterfly meadow
- A rainbow landscape
- A nature journal cover
- A classroom calendar page
There is no single way April has to look.
Use the page as a starting point and create the version of spring you want to see.
🎨 Choose an April Color Palette
Spring is famous for soft colors, but you can use almost any palette.
For a classic April look, try:
- Blush pink
- Lavender
- Pale yellow
- Fresh green
- Sky blue
- Peach
- White
These shades work beautifully together because they feel light and fresh.
Use greens for leaves and stems, pinks and purples for flowers, and blue for the sky.
Then add brighter yellow accents wherever you want the picture to feel sunny.
🌈 Create a Rainbow April
Pastels aren’t the only option.
Turn April into a rainbow.
Use:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Color each flower differently.
Make the lettering rainbow-striped.
Add multicolored raindrops or a giant rainbow across the sky.
Even the leaves can become blue, pink, or purple.
A coloring page doesn’t have to follow real-life spring colors to capture the cheerful feeling of the season.
🌸 Fill April With Spring Flowers
Flowers are one of the easiest ways to make an April picture feel like spring.
Depending on where you live and what the weather has been like, spring flowers may be blooming, emerging, or still waiting for warmer conditions.
Draw extra flowers around your page.
Try:
- Daffodils
- Tulips
- Crocuses
- Daisies
- Pansies
- Cherry blossoms
- Wildflowers
Then experiment with color.
Tulips could be red, yellow, pink, orange, or purple.
Daffodils can shine in yellow, cream, and orange.
Your imaginary wildflowers can use every shade in the box.
For more floral designs, visit our Coloring Pages of Flowers.
🌼 Create an April Flower Garden
Take the flower idea even further and build an entire garden around the page.
Add:
- Flower beds
- Garden paths
- Watering cans
- Flowerpots
- Butterflies
- Bees
- Birds
- A garden fence
- A bench
Maybe this is a carefully planned backyard garden.
Perhaps it is a wild meadow where flowers grow everywhere.
Or turn it into a magical garden where every plant has a different rainbow color.
Our Coloring Pages of Spring offer even more gardens, flowers, birds, butterflies, and whimsical outdoor scenes.
🌧️ Color an April Shower
April is often associated with spring rain.
Turn your coloring page into a rainy scene by adding clouds and raindrops.
Use:
- Pale blue
- Gray-blue
- Lavender
- Silver
- Soft gray
Then add bright colors below so the picture doesn’t feel gloomy.
A red umbrella, yellow rain boots, pink flowers, and bright green grass can stand out beautifully against a cloudy sky.
Rainy April days are also perfect for printing a few extra coloring pages and spending some creative time indoors.
☔ Draw an April Umbrella
Add a large umbrella to the picture.
Divide it into sections and give every section its own color.
Try a rainbow umbrella or decorate it with:
- Flowers
- Hearts
- Stars
- Dots
- Stripes
- Butterflies
Then draw puddles underneath.
Add tiny reflections of the umbrella’s colors in the water.
You could even draw a little bird splashing in one of the puddles.
👢 Add Colorful Rain Boots
Rain boots are another classic spring detail.
Draw a pair beside the picture and design them yourself.
Try:
Flower Boots — covered with daisies.
Rainbow Boots — striped in every color.
Frog Boots — green with funny frog faces.
Butterfly Boots — pink and purple with wing patterns.
Star Boots — dark blue with yellow stars.
Then imagine where you would wear them on a rainy April adventure.
🌈 Draw a Rainbow After the Rain
Rain plus sunshine can create the perfect excuse to add a rainbow.
Draw a big arch across the sky and color:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Or make a pastel rainbow using peach, pale yellow, mint, baby blue, lavender, and pink.
Add fluffy clouds at either end.
For a whole collection devoted to colorful skies, visit our Coloring Pages of Rainbows.
🦋 Add April Butterflies
As spring progresses, butterflies and other insects become increasingly visible in many regions.
Add several butterflies around your flowers.
Give each one a different wing pattern.
Try:
- Dots
- Stripes
- Hearts
- Zigzags
- Rainbow sections
- Matching symmetrical patterns
A butterfly can use realistic orange, black, yellow, or blue—or completely imaginary colors.
Continue the theme with our Butterfly Coloring Page.
🪞 Create a Symmetrical Butterfly
Butterflies are perfect for a simple symmetry challenge.
Draw a butterfly and decorate only one wing.
Then copy the pattern onto the opposite side.
If the left wing has three pink dots, add three matching pink dots to the right.
If one section is purple, make its partner purple too.
Younger children can match basic colors, while older kids can create much more complicated mirrored designs.
🐝 Add Busy Spring Pollinators
Flowers also attract many kinds of pollinating animals.
Draw bees moving between your April blossoms.
A simple cartoon bee only needs:
- An oval body
- Black and yellow stripes
- Two wings
- Antennae
Then add butterflies and other tiny garden visitors.
Children can imagine the entire page as a busy spring habitat rather than just a collection of pretty flowers.
🐦 Add a Spring Bird
Birds make another cheerful addition to an April scene.
Draw one perched on a branch or hopping near the flowers.
Use natural colors such as:
- Brown
- Gray
- Black
- White
- Red
- Blue
- Yellow
Or create a rainbow bird with purple wings and a turquoise tail.
Our Coloring Pages of Birds offer even more feathered inspiration.
🎶 Imagine the Sounds of April
Spring isn’t only colorful.
It can sound different too.
Imagine standing inside the picture.
What might you hear?
Perhaps:
Birdsong.
Rain tapping on leaves.
Bees buzzing.
Wind moving through new branches.
Children playing outdoors.
Write three sounds underneath the finished coloring page.
This simple activity encourages kids to think beyond what they can see.
🌱 Look for New Plant Growth
April is a great time to watch plants change.
Take a walk around a yard, park, schoolyard, or garden.
Look for:
- New leaves
- Buds
- Flowers
- Shoots emerging from soil
- Greener grass
- Flowering trees
Exactly what you see will depend on your location, climate, elevation, and weather.
That variation is part of what makes seasonal observation interesting.
When you return indoors, draw one thing you noticed around the April coloring page.
🔍 Go on an April Nature Hunt
Turn the printable into inspiration for a spring scavenger hunt.
Look for:
- A flower
- A bird
- A cloud
- Something yellow
- Something green
- A new leaf
- A puddle
- An insect
- A flower bud
- Something shaped like a circle
There is no need to collect anything.
Simply finding each object is enough.
Afterward, add several of your discoveries to the coloring page.
📓 Start an April Nature Journal
A finished April coloring sheet can become the cover of a nature journal.
Staple or place blank pages behind it.
Throughout the month, record:
- Flowers
- Birds
- Insects
- Leaves
- Weather
- Rain
- Clouds
- Garden changes
Younger children can make drawings.
Older children can add dates and short descriptions.
By the end of April, the journal becomes a small record of how much spring changed in only a few weeks.
🌦️ Keep an April Weather Calendar
April weather can change quickly in many places.
Create a simple calendar and draw a weather symbol for each day.
Use:
☀️ for sunny
🌧️ for rainy
☁️ for cloudy
🌬️ for windy
At the end of the month, count each type of weather.
Which occurred most often?
Did the weather at the beginning of April look different from the weather near the end?
The finished April coloring page can become the cover of your weather chart.
☀️ Create a Sunny April Scene
Not every April day is rainy.
For a bright spring picture, add a cheerful yellow sun and fluffy clouds.
Color the sky light blue and fill the landscape with fresh greens.
Use flowers in:
- Pink
- Purple
- Yellow
- Orange
- Blue
- White
Add butterflies, birds, and bees.
This palette makes April feel like spring is fully underway.
🐰 Add an Easter Bunny
Easter sometimes falls during April, although its date changes from year to year.
If you’re coloring the page around Easter, add a bunny to the spring scene.
Draw long ears, a fluffy tail, and a little nose.
Your bunny could be:
- White
- Brown
- Gray
- Cream
- Pink
- Lavender
Add a basket or a few decorated eggs beside it.
For even more Easter fun, visit our Easter Basket Coloring Page for Kids.
🥚 Hide Easter Eggs in the Picture
Turn your April coloring page into a mini Easter egg hunt.
Draw several eggs hidden among:
- Flowers
- Grass
- Trees
- Bushes
- Garden pots
Decorate each egg differently.
Try stripes, dots, stars, hearts, zigzags, or rainbows.
Then challenge another person to find every hidden egg.
🧺 Design an Easter Basket
Draw a basket beside your April scene and fill it with:
- Patterned eggs
- Flowers
- Candy
- A stuffed bunny
- Crayons
- Stickers
Color the basket in natural brown and tan or make it bright pink, lavender, turquoise, or rainbow-colored.
Our Easter Basket Coloring Page for Kids gives you an entire printable devoted to this idea.
🌷 Easter and Spring Colors
Spring and Easter palettes naturally work well together.
Try:
- Lavender
- Pale pink
- Mint
- Baby blue
- Yellow
- Peach
Use them across flowers, eggs, rainbows, and decorative details.
For a bolder Easter picture, replace the pastels with bright purple, hot pink, lime green, turquoise, and sunny yellow.
There are no rules saying Easter colors have to be soft.
🌎 Celebrate Earth Day in April
April is also home to Earth Day, observed on April 22.
That gives the monthly coloring page another natural learning connection.
Turn your April picture into an Earth Day scene by drawing the planet in the background.
Color the oceans blue and the land green.
Then add:
- Trees
- Flowers
- Birds
- Butterflies
- Clean rivers
- Mountains
Children can write one simple idea beneath the picture about caring for the places where they live.
🌱 Create an Earth Day Promise
After coloring, finish the sentence:
I can help care for my environment by…
Possible ideas might include:
- Putting litter in the trash
- Reusing paper
- Taking care of plants
- Turning off unnecessary lights
- Using a reusable water bottle
- Learning about local wildlife
- Helping keep parks clean
Keep the activity practical and age-appropriate.
One small action is enough.
🌳 Draw Your Favorite Tree
April is also a wonderful month for noticing trees.
Draw a tree beside the coloring page and decide what stage of spring it has reached.
Does it have:
- Bare branches?
- Tiny buds?
- New green leaves?
- Flowers?
- A bird nest?
Then color the tree based on what you see outside.
You can repeat the activity in May and compare the two drawings.
🐞 Add Tiny Garden Creatures
Spring gardens are full of small creatures.
Add:
- Ladybugs
- Beetles
- Worms
- Bees
- Butterflies
- Caterpillars
Give them natural colors or turn the whole garden into a rainbow habitat.
For even more little creatures, explore our Insect Coloring Pages.
🐞 Count the Ladybugs
Draw five ladybugs around your April picture.
Then count them.
Color:
Two red.
One orange.
One yellow.
One purple.
Older children can create simple math problems.
If five ladybugs are in the garden and two fly away, how many remain?
Little additions like these can turn an ordinary coloring sheet into a simple early-learning activity.
🔤 A Is for April
The April page is also useful for alphabet practice.
Write a large letter A beside the picture.
Then say:
A is for April.
Think of more A words:
- Apple
- Ant
- Alligator
- Airplane
- Acorn
- Astronaut
- Animal
Decorate the letter A with flowers or raindrops.
For more alphabet printables, explore our Coloring Pages of Letters.
🔢 April Is Month Number Four
April is the fourth month of the year.
Turn that fact into a counting activity.
Draw:
- 4 flowers
- 4 butterflies
- 4 raindrops
- 4 Easter eggs
- 4 birds
Then color each group.
Younger children can practice counting from one to four.
Older kids can make their own groups and ask someone else to count them.
📅 Make an April Calendar
Use the coloring page as the top of a homemade April calendar.
Draw a calendar grid underneath and add important dates.
Mark:
- Birthdays
- School events
- Easter, when applicable
- Earth Day
- Family plans
- Nature walks
- Sports
- Trips
Add tiny illustrations to special days.
A flower might mean a garden activity.
A globe could mark Earth Day.
An egg can represent an Easter celebration.
🧺 Make an April Bucket List
Celebrate the new month with a simple spring bucket list.
Ideas include:
- Look for spring flowers
- Watch birds
- Jump in a puddle
- Go on a nature walk
- Draw outdoors
- Have a picnic
- Look for butterflies
- Plant something
- Read outside
- Color an Easter egg
- Watch the clouds
- Visit a park
Choose only the activities that make sense for your family, school, and local weather.
Check them off throughout April.
🌱 Plant Something
April may be a good planting month for some plants in some regions, while in other places frost and cold conditions are still possible.
The best planting schedule depends on local climate.
Adults can help children choose something appropriate.
If you plant a seed or young plant, keep a simple record.
Draw it on planting day.
Then draw it again a week later.
Has anything changed?
The April coloring page can become the cover of a little plant-growth notebook.
🌧️ Draw a Plant Before and After Rain
Try a simple drawing challenge.
On one side of a page, draw a flower on a dry day.
On the other side, draw the same flower after an April rain.
Add raindrops, puddles, wet leaves, and cloudy skies.
The plant itself may not dramatically change after one shower, but the environment can look completely different.
Kids can use color to show those differences.
📚 Read a Spring Story
Pair coloring time with a spring-themed book.
Choose a story about:
- Gardens
- Birds
- Rain
- Flowers
- Butterflies
- Easter
- Animals
- Earth Day
Afterward, draw one new object from the story around the April picture.
This is an easy way to connect reading with art without making the activity feel like an assignment.
✏️ Try an April Writing Prompt
The page can also inspire creative writing.
Try:
One rainy April morning…
The first flower of spring suddenly began to talk…
I followed a butterfly and discovered…
At the end of the rainbow was…
The Easter Bunny lost one very special egg…
My perfect April day would include…
Younger children can tell their story aloud.
Older children can write several sentences or a full page.
🌧️ Invent a Rainy-Day Adventure
Imagine the April picture takes place during a rainstorm.
What happens next?
Maybe someone discovers a giant puddle that leads to another world.
Perhaps a frog appears wearing tiny rain boots.
Maybe every raindrop changes color when it hits the ground.
Add your favorite idea to the coloring page and draw the next scene on another sheet of paper.
🐸 Add a Spring Frog
Rainy spring scenes are perfect for frogs.
Draw one near a puddle.
Color it:
- Green
- Brown
- Yellow
- Blue
- Purple
- Rainbow
Give it a tiny umbrella or rain hat.
Perhaps the frog is the official guardian of April puddles.
🌼 Compare April and May
Once April ends, continue through the year with our May Coloring Page.
The May design features a cheerful garden with daisies, a little bird, leaves, and a watering can.
Color April and May side by side.
What changes?
Perhaps your April page uses more clouds, rain, Easter eggs, and early spring colors, while May becomes greener and more garden-focused.
Following monthly printables this way creates a simple visual record of the changing season.
🌱 Look Back at March
You can also compare April with the month before it.
Our March Coloring Page celebrates the transition out of winter and toward spring.
Place March, April, and May together.
Ask:
Which page feels most like early spring?
Which has the brightest colors?
Which would you add the most flowers to?
Which month looks most like what you currently see outdoors?
📆 Color the Whole Spring Season
March, April, and May can become a complete spring coloring project.
Start with:
Then color:
Finish with:
Save all three pages in a binder or display them together.
Then continue into June Coloring Pages as spring begins giving way to summer.
🌷 Explore More Spring Coloring Pages
If April has put you in a spring mood, there are plenty more designs to explore.
Our Coloring Pages of Spring include flowers, butterflies, birds, garden scenes, mushrooms, watering cans, and other cheerful seasonal artwork.
You can also browse the broader Seasonal Coloring Pages hub and follow the entire year from winter snow through spring flowers, summer beaches, and autumn leaves.
🌿 Connect April With Nature Coloring
Spring coloring becomes even more interesting when children compare the artwork with the outdoors.
Our Nature Coloring Pages offer even more opportunities to explore flowers, animals, gardens, landscapes, and other natural themes.
Choose a nature page after completing April and use a similar palette.
Maybe both pictures share the same:
- Sky blue
- Leaf green
- Flower pink
- Sunshine yellow
The pages will feel as though they belong in one spring collection.
🏫 April Coloring Page for the Classroom
This printable works naturally with many classroom themes.
Teachers might use it for:
- Morning work
- Early finishers
- Spring units
- April calendars
- Weather lessons
- Earth Day
- Easter activities
- Art centers
- Creative writing
- Indoor recess
- Bulletin boards
Students can color the page and add one thing they associate with April.
Display the completed artwork together and see how differently everyone imagines the same month.
🌷 Create an April Classroom Display
Turn the completed coloring pages into a giant spring bulletin board.
Add paper:
- Flowers
- Butterflies
- Raindrops
- Umbrellas
- Birds
- Clouds
- Rainbows
Possible headings include:
April Is Blooming!
Spring Into Creativity
April Showers Bring Colorful Flowers
Welcome, April!
Each child can contribute a page or individual spring decoration.
🏠 April Coloring at Home
At home, an April coloring page makes an easy activity for a rainy afternoon, weekend morning, playdate, Easter gathering, or quiet time.
Set out:
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Markers
- Blank paper
Children can color the printable first and then draw their own April picture beside it.
Keep both pages together as a little snapshot of what spring looked like through their eyes that year.
🚗 Take April Coloring on the Go
Spring often brings more outings, road trips, and family activities.
Print the page before leaving and pack it with a clipboard and colored pencils.
Kids can color in the car, at a restaurant, during travel breaks, or while waiting for an activity to begin.
Write the date and destination on the back afterward.
A simple coloring page can become part of a family spring scrapbook.
✂️ Turn the April Page Into a Craft
A finished April coloring sheet can become:
- Spring wall art
- A calendar cover
- A nature-journal cover
- An Easter decoration
- An Earth Day poster
- A greeting card
- A classroom display
- A scrapbook page
- A spring collage
Cut out favorite elements with age-appropriate supervision and glue them onto colored construction paper.
Add extra flowers, butterflies, rainbows, or paper raindrops.
💌 Make a Spring Greeting Card
The April design can also become a cheerful handmade card.
Mount the finished picture onto folded cardstock.
Write:
Happy Spring!
Hello, April!
Thinking of You
Have a Beautiful Day
Add flowers, butterflies, or a rainbow around the message.
A spring card doesn’t need a special holiday to give someone a colorful surprise.
🖼️ Make an April Memory Page
Pair the finished coloring sheet with a photograph from April.
Maybe it shows:
- A spring walk
- An Easter gathering
- Flowers
- A rainy afternoon
- A garden
- A family outing
Write the date and a sentence about the memory.
Save it in a binder alongside May and June pages.
Over time, the coloring pages become a seasonal scrapbook.
🖍️ Best Supplies for This April Coloring Page
Crayons are a great choice for younger children and larger spaces.
Colored pencils offer more control for flowers, small decorative details, shading, and layered spring colors.
Markers create bright rainbows, flowers, and Easter designs. Slightly heavier paper may be useful if marker ink tends to bleed through ordinary printer paper.
You can also add:
- Gel pens
- Stickers
- Metallic details
- Paper flowers
Use whichever supplies make coloring most enjoyable.
🖨️ How to Use This Free April Coloring Page
Print your April coloring page and choose the colors that feel like spring to you.
Start with the main design.
Then build an entire April world around it.
Maybe your April is sunny and filled with flowers.
Perhaps it is rainy, with umbrellas and puddles everywhere.
Maybe you’re celebrating Easter with colorful eggs and a bunny.
Or perhaps your page becomes an Earth Day garden filled with trees, butterflies, birds, and other wildlife.
There is no single correct picture of April.
Every place—and every artist—experiences the month a little differently.
🌷 Let Your Creativity Bloom This April
April is a wonderful month for noticing change.
Flowers emerge, leaves return, rain falls, birds and insects become increasingly active, and spring becomes more colorful in many places.
Our free printable April coloring page gives kids a simple way to celebrate all of it.
Use soft spring pastels, create a rainbow scene, add Easter eggs, draw butterflies, keep an April nature journal, make a classroom calendar, or turn the finished picture into a seasonal craft.
Then compare your April creation with March and May and watch the year change one coloring page at a time.
Grab your favorite colors and let your creativity bloom!
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📚 Sources
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Earth Day
- National Park Service — Spring
- U.S. Forest Service — Celebrating Wildflowers
- Smithsonian Gardens — Pollinator Gardens
- Library of Congress — Easter Traditions and the Easter Bunny
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